It also appears as if the Hugh Hefner and President Bush connection was discovered by Ancestry, but a CBS story about this connection from FamilyForest.com appeared five years ago. Even National Public Radio in 2007, talked about our famous Hollywood and Presidential connections in the Family Forest®.

HouseFront is connecting particular individuals (in this case celebrities) to a specific place (their homes) in time, now.

The Family Forest® Project is connecting particular individuals (celebrities, as well as everyday people) to a specific place in time, most often in the past, and sometimes many centuries ago.

These two services can be used together to find interesting connections between the homes of present day celebrities and historical figures from the past, or possibly to see maps and photographs of some of the homes your own ancestors lived in a century or three ago.

A news story began circulating Tuesday about Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama being distant cousins.

Anyone using the Family Forest® New World Edition from two years ago can instantly pull up a chart that illustrates, through generation-by-generation family ties, this supposedly new story.

The story fails to mention some of the other famous cousins Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama share through this common ancestor, early Maryland settler Mareen Duval.

Second Lady Lynne Cheney does not mention that she is also a distant cousin of presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and that one of their common ancestors built and lived in a castle. This information can be seen by following the links in Probably Your Castle.

More of Senator Barack Obama’s family ties to the White House can be found in a story from early this year about his presidential genes.